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| Pok Fu Lam Village |
Every morning around 8:45AM bus 970X swings around a high turn about and gives its passengers a full frontal view of the shanty town Pok Fu Lam Village. Pok Fu Lam to me was never a sought out or planned adventure, but with daily window seat viewings, it seeped its way into the recesses of my interest. Recently we had a half day off due to a typhoon and the weather was hardly severe enough to stay indoors so I jumped on the opportunity. My PFL experience was more sobering than adventurous, but I appreciate a little slap of reality in this playground of a city .
As a foreign English teacher life is pretty lush and easy. Within a month of walking onto the Hong Kong scene I secured a well paying job just for being able to speak the language my mother taught me. The apartment and community of instant ex-pat friends soon thereafter fell into place. Not bad, considering the people living in PFL get paid a small portion of my salary to work three times as hard and come home to the grating questions of availability of running water or electricity. An hour tops was what I spent here and I'm no expert so let's allow the photos to do their speaking:
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| View walking up from the road |
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| 970X view |
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| The top of the village, surprisingly lush |
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| city gazing |
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| One way to secure a roof |
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| View of the village from the top, you can see in the upper left hand corner the road my bus takes |
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